How to Pick the Right PI Developer Technology for your Project

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1 How to Pick the Right PI Developer Technology for your Project Presented by Patrice Thivierge Fortin Regional Services Lead, France

2 Why talking about picking the right PI Developer Technology? To provide a starting point to address common challenges Common challenges Avoiding reinventing the wheel Knowing what tools exist Integration with other systems 2

3 Plan for this presentation Overview of the PI Developer Technologies How to Pick the right technology Usage Scenarios Useful Resources Conclusion 3

4 Overview of PI Developer Technologies 4

5 What are PI Developer Technologies? Powerful set of tools To Extend your possibilities Or to enable Integration Allows to have your PI System data anywhere you need 5

6 PI Developer Technologies Overview AF SDK Library for.net Framework PI Web API RESTful Web Service PI SQL Products SQL access to PI System Data PI OPC Servers Access Data from OPC Clients 6

7 Other useful PI System technologies PowerShell Tools for the PI System A PowerShell library to administer and manipulate data for the PI System PI Vision Extensibility To extend PI Vision client through JavaScript and HTML5 Command line Many OSIsoft products have command line utilities 7

8 How to pick the right Developer Technology? 8

9 Do you really need a custom development? 9

10 Many options already exist within the PI System Options to consider before jumping into custom development Data Collection PI Connectors & PI Interfaces PI Connector for UFL (supports a REST endpoint) Calculations AF: Analytics, Event Frames, Statistical Quality Control 10

11 Many options already exist within the PI System Options to consider before jumping into custom development Sharing Data Notifications: SOAP, REST PI Integrators: Azure, BA, etc. Data Visualization PI Vision URL parameters Use a URL to open displays programmatically 11

12 What type of application are you building? 12

13 Types of applications and possible options to interact with the PI System Windows Desktop App Tablet, Phone Browser App Integration /Reporting Linux / Other OS Industrial Systems, Process Control Examples of Potential Candidates: AF SDK, PI Web API, PI SQL PI Web API PI Web API AF SDK, PI SQL, PI Web API PI Web API, PI JDBC PI OPC Servers 13

14 What are the things to know about the different technologies? 14

15 AF SDK 15

16 AF SDK Highlights.NET Framework High performance Rich set of functions: used in many OSIsoft products Microsoft Windows only 16

17 Things to Know about AF SDK Single-threaded applications are straightforward Multi-user, multi-threaded applications require some consideration Consider using the guidelines PI AF SDK Guidelines on PI Developers Club 17

18 PI Web API 18

19 PI Web API Highlights Accessible from any device (HTTP) Contains internal optimizations such as: Multi-user, multi-threaded Cache Multiple authentication options Anonymous, Basic and Kerberos Claims (OpenID Connect) (everything ultimately maps to a Windows Identity) 19

20 Things to know about PI Web API Secured using an SSL certificate Can execute many calls in a single query with Batch Real time updates through Channels (web sockets) gzip compression OpenAPI (Swagger) specification 2017 Generate your client 20

21 PI Web API 2017 implements OpenAPI specification With Swagger you can generate a PI Web API client in many languages 1 Goto * *Check our Public PI Web API EndPoint! more info here 2 Import 21

22 PI SQL Family PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, PI ODBC Driver, PI JDBC Driver 22

23 PI SQL Family Highlights PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, PI ODBC Driver, PI JDBC Driver Contains internal optimizations such as: Multi-user, multi-threaded Authentication Common use cases Reporting SQL-based clients Business System Integration SQL Server Linked Server, Oracle Database Gateway 23

24 Things to know about PI SQL Technologies PI OLEDB Provider, PI OLEDB Enterprise, PI ODBC Driver, PI JDBC Driver Convenient way to view your elements as tables (TransposeFunctions) There are better queries than others: care is needed. Read the user manuals and the whitepapers 24

25 PI OPC Servers 25

26 PI OPC Servers Highlights PI OPC DA Server PI OPC HDA Server Usage Scenarios Industrial visualization clients OPC Clients 26

27 Usage Scenarios 27

28 Remarks about scenarios Presented diagrams are very high level The PI System on the diagrams may represent several server boxes PI System 28

29 Windows Application (Desktop, Service) Requires installation on client AF SDK is installed with the AF Client Windows Computer Your App (.NET) AF SDK TCP 5457,5450 PI System 29

30 Simple Web Application (Single Page App) No installation required on client PI Web API is installed with AF Services (2017) Works with any operating system: Windows, Linux, Phones, etc. Windows Server(s) PI Web API AF SDK HTTPs, JSON Any Device Your App (HTML Client) JavaScript PI System 30

31 Third Party Software OLEDB-compatible Requires installation on client This scenario applies to SQL Server Linked Server Windows Computer PI OLEDB Enterprise AF SDK OLEDB Third Party Software OLEDB Connection PI System 31

32 Third Party Software JDBC-compatible Linux or Windows Computer NEW CTP Real Time Query Processor Engine PI JDBC Driver JDBC Java Runtime Environment JDBC Compatibility Windows Server PI System PI SQL DAS New Upcoming RTQP PI OLEDB Engine!* / PI OLEDB Ent 32

33 Summary 33

34 When to use PI Developer Technologies? To solve a unique business problem To extend your possibilities with the PI System 34

35 Types of applications and possible options to interact with the PI System Windows Desktop App Tablet, Phone Browser App Integration /Reporting Linux /Other OS Industrial Systems, Process Control Examples of Potential Candidates: AF SDK, PI Web API, PI SQL PI Web API PI Web API AF SDK, PI SQL, PI Web API PI Web API, PI JDBC PI OPC Servers 35

36 Summary of Developer Technologies by features Dependencies AF SDK PI Web API PI SQL Family.NET Framework AF SDK,.NET Framework AF SDK,.NET Framework Requires installation on client X X* Supports a multi-user application Supports multithreading Yes, with considerations Yes, with considerations Many Operating Systems Windows Only Yes Yes, with JDBC Available Authentication Windows Integrated Yes Yes Multiple Yes Yes Multiple Default Data Caching No Yes Yes Signup for data updates Yes Yes No * The future RTQP architecture will remove the need of AF SDK on the client. 36

37 Summary of Developer Technologies capabilities Name Type PI Data Archive? PI Asset Framework? Event Frames? Example Use PI AF SDK.NET SDK RW RW RW Custom development PI Web API REST Services RW RW RW Custom development, including mobile and non- Windows REST clients PI OLEDB Enterprise PI OLEDB Provider Standard OLEDB COM Standard OLEDB COM R R R SQL clients Microsoft SQL Server Linked Server RW - - Same as PI OLEDB Enterprise PI JDBC Standard JDBC RW RW RW Java clients on Windows and Linux PI ODBC Standard ODBC RW RW RW ODBC clients on Windows PI OPC DA Server PI OPC HDA Server Standard OPC DA and HDA RW - - OPC clients on Windows More details: 37

38 Other Useful Information 38

39 Licensing OK to use PI Developer Technologies to build applications at no charge OK to blog about (your) code OK to post open-source projects that use PI Developer Technologies Licensing should not affect your technology choice! 39

40 Technical Support Talks with us if you have any question You can contact support: Via Phone Via Via Technical support web site (web-form) 40

41 Technical Support Web Site Find Product descriptions Downloads Install kits White Papers User Manuals 41

42 PI Live Library - The source for the web documentation of our products 42

43 PI Square - OSIsoft Community for PI Users and Developers PI Developers Club White Papers Blogs Webinars Questions Training 43

44 GitHub - Code Samples AF SDK PI Web API OMF Connectors And More 44

45 Contact Information Patrice Thivierge Fortin Regional Services Lead, France OSIsoft France SARL 45

46 Questions Please wait for the microphone before asking your questions Please remember to Complete the Online Survey for this session State your name & company 46

47 Thank You